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ANS slips to mid-$80s
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Alaska North Slope crude plunged $2.77 May 1 to close at $84.05 per barrel, as West Texas Intermediate slumped below $80 -- tumbling $2.93 to close at $79 -- and Brent plummeted $4.42 to close at $83.44.
From Wednesday to Wednesday, ANS slid $3.95 from its close of $88 on April 24.
The most obvious....
Santos applies for pool IO
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Oil Search (Alaska) LLC, a subsidiary of Santos Limited, applied to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on April 16 to establish an Area Injection Order for the Nanushuk Oil Pool in the Pikka unit, which lies west of the central North Slope.
Basically, Oil Search (Alaska) as Pikka unit op....
Gas shortage planning
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
In recent months the electric utilities in the Alaska Railbelt have conducted presentations to the Regulatory Commission of Alaska about contingency arrangements for dealing with power shortages, should normal electricity supply arrangements fall short of demand.
With potential shortages of natural....
Contraction delays: Redoubt gets partial OK; Ninilchik request in
- 05/05/2024 (Full story)
A request from Cook Inlet Energy to delay contraction of its Cook Inlet Redoubt unit was partially approved April 30 by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas. On May 1 the division received a contraction delay request from Hilcorp Alaska for its Ninilchik unit.
In the....
ADEC Air Permit Program proposes to approve ORL for Mustang Pad
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Air Permit Program said April 19 that it proposes to approve an Owner Requested Limit, or ORL, for the Mustang Pad on Alaska's North Slope in the Southern Miluveach unit.
The Mustang Pad is a 17-acre gravel production pad, located off Mustang Road,....
Hilcorp applies for exemption for CNG used at Milne Point unit - 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Hilcorp Alaska has applied to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for a waiver of the commission's regulations for use of compressed natural gas outside the Milne Point unit boundary by CNG-powered MPU vehicles.
In an April 30 notice AOGCC said the waiver would be from regulations requir....
Plan approvals include more mud, new wells
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Over the last month the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas has approved project work at several North Slope facilities.
On April 19, approval was given for a proposal by ConocoPhillips Alaska to expand an existing mud plant at the Kuukpik Pad in the Colville River unit,.... |
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Alaska-Mackensie Rig Report - 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
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March ANS down marginally from February
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Alaska North Slope production averaged 481,347 barrels per day in March, down 557 bpd, 0.1%, from a February average of 481,904 bpd and down 0.7% from a March 2023 average of 484,939 bpd.
Crude made up 88% of the March volume, averaging 423,728 bpd, up 269 bpd, 0.1%, from a February average of 423,....
Sidebar: Cook Inlet natural gas down 0.5%
- 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Cook Inlet natural gas production averaged 205,653 thousand cubic feet per day in March, down 924 mcf, 0.5%, from a February average of 206,568 mcf per day and down 4.4% from a March 2023 average of 215,068 mcf per day.
Volumes are calculated from Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission data, re....
Baker Hughes US rig count down 6 to 613 - 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
The Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 613 the week ending April 26, down by six rigs from 619 the previous week, and down by 142 from 755 a year ago, following a gain of two rigs last week. The rig count was down in six and up in two of the last eight weeks, with a loss of 25 against....
This month in history: Colville River unit expansion approved - 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
Editor's note: This story first appeared in the May 2, 2004, issue of Petroleum News.
A new prospect -- Iapetus -- will see exploration drilling on the west side of Alaska's North Slope before next June by terms of an expansion of the Colville River unit approved by the Alaska Division of Oil and Ga....
Oil patch bits: Airgas expands high school welding education initiative - 05/05/2024 (Login to read Full story)
As reported by Airgas News April 4, Airgas, an Air Liquide company, will welcome 65 schools into the company's high school welding education initiative for the 2024 academic year, expanding the ongoing program to help students across the country prepare to enter welding, engineering and technical ca.... |
